Carried out to Assess the roles of informal credit to small scale maize farmers in Jema`a Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The data were obtained primarily by administering questionnaires to 75 farmers that were purposively selected from 4 villages in Jema`a Local Governmen...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/12099
Aims: The goal of this work was to confirm the results of leaching and dissipation of the imidacloprid obtained with intact soil columns and draining lysimeters. Methodology: A study on the distribution of imidacloprid (insecticide) residual deposit was carried out on two potatoe...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/11955
This study examines factors affecting the involvement of women in income generating activities. Data for this study were obtained by the use of structured questionnaire. A total of 120 respondents were interviewed consisting of 60 women involved in income generating activities an...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/11132
Aim: Preliminary experiment on the effect of liquefied Jellyfish on seedling growth and the digested solution of jellyfish as insecticides. Place and Duration of Study: Natural Products Research Department, National Center for Radiation Research and Technology, Atomic energy auth...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/12196
Aims: India is one of the most densely populated, developing and industrially fast growing country of the earth that not only facing the problem of water scarcity, but also the mismanagement of tremendous amount of wastewater (WW) produced every day. Therefore a study was conduct...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/9293
Aims: The aims of this study were to determine diversity and community structure of benthic insects in fish farm ponds. Study Design: Monthly samplings have been conducted from December 2007 to November 2008 in five fish farms (Layo, Banco, Azaguié, Anyama I and Anyama II) in sou...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2015/2718
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench), though ranked as the third most important staple food crop in Kenya, farmers still experience periodic crop failure and this is a threat to food and income security. This paper attempts to find the underlying factors responsible for low produc...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/12107
Potentials of two indigenous plants powder derived from Acmella oleracea, Linn and Lantana camara, Linn were evaluated in the laboratory at ambient temperature and relative humidity (28±20C; 75±5% RH) for the control of stored maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais (Motsch). Powders ob...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10475
The Fadama II project was designed to reduce poverty by improving the living condition of the rural poor, contribute to food security and increase access to rural infrastructure. This study estimates the direct impacts of the project on poverty reduction in respect of the project...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/10726
Fruit quality is the result of a complex interaction of management and environmental factors. By understanding the impact of environment, culture, harvesting, handling and storage on fruit quality, growers should be able to improve both average qualities in their crop as well as...
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Research Article10.9734/AJEA/2014/9783